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Public Finance Management Act, 1999 (Act No. 1 of 1999)

Chapter 4 : National and Provincial Budgets

31. Provincial adjustments budgets

 

(1) The MEC for finance in a province may table an adjustments budget in the provincial legislature, subject to subsection (3).

 

(2) An adjustments budget of a province may only provide for—
(a) the appropriation of funds that have become available to the province;
(b) unforeseeable and unavoidable expenditure recommended by the provincial Executive Council of the province within a framework determined by the Minister;
(c) any expenditure in terms of section 25;
(d) money to be appropriated for expenditure already announced by the MEC for finance during the tabling of the annual budget;
(e) the shifting of funds between and within votes or to follow the transfer of functions in terms of section 42;
(f) the utilisation of savings under a main division within a vote for the defrayment of excess expenditure under another main division within the same vote in terms of section 43; and
(g) the roll-over of unspent funds from the preceding financial year.

 

(3) The Minister may determine the time when an adjustments budget may be tabled in a provincial legislature, as well as the format for such budgets.